sure it's a tool of social control and surveillance owned and operated by fascists, but it writes work emails for me. on balance who's to say it's good or bad

Sounds like someone doesn't understand the wild value of liminal space

you love to see it

There are advertisements all over Stockholm for a staged musical version of Brokeback Mountain this fall, and...look. That is a uniquely American kind of brokenness!! I just do not think Swedes have the range. Other forms of tortured masculinity, sure. Maybe just not this one.

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

Few things as delicious in this life as the freedom of some time without expectation shaping up ahead of you.

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

I am proud to publish this essay by Huda Fakhreddine about her family's home in southern Lebanon; first destroyed by Israeli rockets in 2024 and now under threat again in light of Israel's full-scale attack on her homeland www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...

Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. “I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%."

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

I would really appreciate a timeline that does not have me out here wanting to defend the *Catholic Church* or the *tradition of Catholicism* on a semi-regular basis. That being said, liberation theology has always slapped, send tweet.

Vol. 4 of On the Calculation of Volume publishes today so I am refreshing my Libby app to try to get first hold on a digital copy like I'm one of my students trying to get Taylor Swift tickets.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

The death toll in Lebanon is now 2,020 with 6,436 injured

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

i voted for them my whole life and they never once did anything i asked them to 👍

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

I don’t think “why aren’t there as many campus protestors in year 3 of the genocide risking life and limb under a repressive regime for whom protestors are not a relevant constituency” is a particularly interesting question

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

More attacks on Beirut just now. White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

We didn't deserve this day.

some things that are still true at 7:05pm Eastern on April 7th 2026: -congress has to do the fucking thing -we will celebrate like hell when It Happens -we will show up for each other -power won’t redistribute itself

it doesn't matter that they're liars and bluffers, it doesn't matter that they're pussies, it doesn't matter that they (probably) won't do what they're threatening to do. its enough that they are saying it. its enough that it's possible. this is not acceptable to any living creature on the planet

I'll tell you what I am real tired of people explaining "how the government works" as a rebuttal to our demands of elected officials with power. None of the past year has been "how the government works," but it HAS been an exercise in power. We want them to do ANYTHING.

1/ In Lebanon, more than 1.2 million people have been displaced and 1,400 killed since the war between Israel and Hezbollah began in March. @justinsalhani.bsky.social shares one month of diary entries about what it’s been like living and working in Beirut. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

you can blame voters, whatever, there is certainly enough blame to go around. but this is just the inevitable end point of complete institutional collapse. congress, the parties, scotus, department of justice, the media. this is the belligerent actions of a hollowed out and crumbling empire.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

Having an entire nervous breakdown during my 20-minute lunch break and trying to get it together before I see students again

Like Fannie Lou Hamer said, “I’m sick of symbolic things. We are fighting for our lives.”

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

Taxes are good, in fact, & Democrats should stop granting Ronald Reagan's bad premise about government: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I wrote this *before* the war: how we should expect the aggression against Iran to resemble the Israeli destruction of civilian infrastructure of Gaza, a crucial component of the genocide.

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited

Red state book bans and mandates rightly attract a lot of attention. Meanwhile, there’s been and continues to be a quieter shift in blue states away from meaningful kinds of reading and writing.

The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder. Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability. Public education defenders need our own inspiring take on the meaning of school.